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Bible Note: lionheart I see I owe you a response I was taught about the relationship Amenemope/ Amenope/ Amenhotep/ Amen-em-Ope to Proverbs in a college class. The footnote on the NRSV says 22:17-24:34 is related to Amen-em-ope. When I did a google search for comparisons the ones listed seemed relevant. The critical apparatus of the BHS for this sections says 5 times "cf doctrinam Amenemope". If you do a books.google.com search on "A. AMENEMOPE AND PROVERBS" you should see a google books entry for "PROVERBS 1031: Volume 18 - Page 753". This is Proverbs 10-31, Volume 18 by Michael V. Fox who is a Jewish scholar. Scroll down and see the line "In 1924, the Egyptologist Adolf Erman argued that Proverbs 22:17-24:22 was a translation of sayings from the Wisdom of Amenemope (Erman 1924a)." see "Fine Àgyptische Quelle der 'Spruch Salomos". I don't read German. It was proposed there were 30 possible sayings in Proverbs 22:17-24:22 to possibly corresponding to 30 chapters Amenemope. Obviously 30 sayings can't be a translation of 30 chapters and those that are proposed to correspond are not all in the same order though in the book by Fox he does mention a small section with a tighter correspondance of thought. I didn't decide how to respond then and noticed it now when I returned. There is some correlation of thought but it's not a translation. You might look at why Whybray changed his opinion against the relationship. "thirty" as a proposed emendation to Prov 22:19 by Adolf Erdman "Amen-em-ope" as a proposed emendation by Gary A. Rendsburg Look how the proposed emendations effect translations: Catholic New American Bible Prov 22:19 That your trust may be in the LORD, I make known to you the words of Amen-em-Ope. Prov 22:20 Have I not written for you the "Thirty," with counsels and knowledge, NASB Prov 22:19 So that your trust may be in the LORD, I have taught you today, even you. Prov 22:20 Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, NIV Prov 22:19 So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach you today, even you. Prov 22:20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge, |
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